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plain and simple, the Bush administration is trying to make temporary side deals that run contrary to the actual DR-CAFTA treaty to get the votes necessary to pass it. With the sugar industry, the Secretary of Agriculture just yesterday…
I thank the Chair. The proponents want this agreement so much that they are going to use--one way or another, directly or indirectly--U.S. taxpayer dollars to subsidize domestic sugar production or to buy off some of the otherwise imported…
I ask that the pending business be set aside. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendment No. 790
I call up Senate amendment 790. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Minnesota [Mr. Dayton] proposes an amendment numbered 790.
reserving the right for a minute, I note that Senator Stevens and Senator Inouye performed a magnificent service to our Senate and to our country by hosting our distinguished guests from China in such a superb manner. They and their staffs…
how a minority, reaching majority, seizing authority, hates the minority'' is attributed by the Library of Congress to a Leonard Robinson, in 1968. So I guess there is a historical precedent for the attitudes of the majority in the Senate…
on May 11, 2005, I was necessarily absent from the Senate to attend the funeral of St. Paul, MN police officer, Sergeant Gerald Vick, who tragically lost his life in the line of duty on Friday, May 6, 2005. I joined over 2,000 Minnesotans…
I salute the chairman and the ranking member for this excellent legislation. I will support a cloture motion. It is very important we pass this legislation as expeditiously as possible for States such as Minnesota which have a short…
this budget proves the old saying that the end justifies the means. In this case the process used to produce this budget was a disgrace, and the budget itself is a disgrace. The Democratic Senators who were the official members of the…
when I went to work in the Washington office of then-Senator Walter Mondale from Minnesota as a young, beginning legislative assistant in 1975, Al Eisele was a Washington correspondent for the St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press, Duluth…
earlier today, as a member of the Senate Rules Committee, I participated in a markup of legislation that purports to regulate the so-called 527 organizations. What started out as campaign finance reform legislation in the view of many…
The Senator knows this is an emergency supplemental, so it is not subject to the normal budget process. In my 4-plus years here, I have not witnessed another occasion where a budget point of order has been raised against any part of the…